Hurwitz: Obama denies science

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Posted Jul. 18, 2014 at 12:24 AM

Posted Jul. 18, 2014 at 12:24 AM

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As Princeton Professor William Happer has written: "We need high-quality climate science because of the importance of climate to mankind. But we should also remember the description of how science works by the late, great physicist, Richard Feynman: In general we look for a new [scientific] law by the following process. First we guess it. Then we compute the consequences of the guess [hypothesis] to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right. Then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience; compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment it [the hypothesis] is wrong."

Those who claim that man-made CO2 is causing climate change base their "settled science" on a hypothesis and questionable data which has not been proven by comparing their dire predictions with nature, with experiment, or with experience. They cannot explain the cooling over the past 15 to 17 years. They cannot explain the climate change during the Mediaeval period known as the Maunder Minimum. They cannot explain warming periods prior to manís use of fossil fuels.

If the data disagrees with the hypothesis the hypothesis is wrong. Man made CO2 is not the driver of any climate change observations. Controlling CO2 emissions will have no effect on climate but will cause great economic hardship when, as Obama the science-denier-in-chief promised, the cost of energy "necessarily skyrockets".